Re: Filter Templates

Hi Rick,

	Yes, that's correct. In SVG as specified, it could be
<g comp-op="multiply">...</g> or use inline style as you wrote
or applied to individual objects, etc. Although, there's no real
need for 'blend:layer' in your example, but the overall idea is
right.

Alex

--Original Message--:
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>Hi Alex, 
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>to make sure I'm not confused.
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>This is a filter:
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><svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
> <defs>
>   <filter id="srcLoadedOverlay">
>     <feImage xlink:href="url(#canvas0)" result="img1" />
>     <feImage xlink:href="url(#canvas1)" result="img2" />
>     <feImage xlink:href="url(#canvas2)" result="img3" />
>     <feBlend in="img1" in2="img2" result="blend1" mode="multiply" />
>     <feBlend in="blend1" in2="img3" mode="lighten" />
>   </filter>
> </defs>
></svg>
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>and this would be a property:
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><html>
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>...
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><body>
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>.... <- backdrop
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><div style="blend: layer;"> <- group A
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>  ... <- text, images, etc
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>  <div style="blend: multiply;"> <- group B
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>    .. <- text, images, etc
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>  </div>
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></div>
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>Rik
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>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com> wrote:
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>Hi Anthony and all,
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>--Original Message--:
>>Just adding to what Alex said (see below)...
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>>>-----Original Message-----
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>>><snip/>
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>>>Perhaps that should serve as something to look at. This was researched
>>>extensively at the time, and a property works far better than the SVG
>>>filter mechanism when combining a lot of objects for blending.
>>>
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>>This is because the background is included twice when using filters to perform compositing. This leads to incorrect results - the output tends to be darker than expected.
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>Ignoring side-effects, one of the main advantages of a property
>over a filter is no need for any sort of intermediate bitmap.
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>The object being blended can be rasterized and alpha blended
>with the correct blend mode directly to the canvas. So the
>performance is significantly higher, especially if you are
>trying to composite lots of graphics on top of live HD video
>where memory bandwidth actually matters.
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>Alex
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Received on Friday, 25 February 2011 01:47:29 UTC